Gene Xpert
To Study the Comparative yield of Zn Staining v/s CBNAAT (Gene Xpert) in Clinically Diagnosed cases of Tubercular Pleural Effusion
... that Gene Xpert MTB/RIF assay could play a significant role as routine diagnostic investigation in Clinico- Radiological & Biochemical suspected cases of tubercular pleural effusion and advantage of ...
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Stool as Appropriate Sample for the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Gene Xpert Test
... A total of 91 children suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) were recruited during the study from one pri- vate and one public hospital in Kenya. These children were suspected for PTB as they showed 3 or more ...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Gene Xpert vs Acid Fast Smear in HIV Patients Suspected for Tuberculosis
... to Gene Xpert test. This could be due to the ability of Gene Xpert to detect very low numbers of bacilli compared to acid fast smear which may require higher number of ...bacilli. Xpert ...
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A study on prevalence of rifampicin resistance by Gene Xpert with clinico-radiological correlation in previously treated pulmonary tuberculosis patients.
... The Gene Xpert is an excellent diagnostic tool for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin ...The Gene Xpert test (CBNAAT) was ...
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Role of gene Xpert test in clinical TB suspect in children
... Mantoux test have high percentage of false positive results. Globally under diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis remains an obstacle to effective managements therefore children suspected of having pulmonary TB ...
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Efficacy of gene xpert over other diagnostic modalities of tuberculosis among children
... 100% Gene X’pert positivity followed by all the patients with primary complex had 100% Gene X’pert ...So Gene X’pert was able to diagnose good chunk of X-ray negative patients, which is ...
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Evaluation of gene xpert for routine diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis in Nigeria: A prospective cohort study
... of Xpert to diagnose TB within two hours suggests that patients with symptoms of TB could get a diagnosis and commence treatment during one clinic ...in Xpert positive/smear positive patients to 27 days in ...
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Discordance across Several Methods for Drug Susceptibility Testing of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in a Single Laboratory
... AST, Gene/Xpert MTB/ RIF, GenoType MTBDRplus line probe assay, MycoTB MIC plate, and a laboratory-developed mycobacteriophage quantitative PCR (qPCR)-based ...
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Ocular mycobacteriosis—dual infection of M. tuberculosis complex with M. fortuitum and M. bovis
... [3], Gene Xpert, and line probe assay ...by Gene Xpert and sensitive to both rifampicin and isoniazid by ...SOD gene primers and yielded ...
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Provider initiated tuberculosis case finding in outpatient departments of health care facilities in Ghana: yield by screening strategy and target group
... In this study the screening approach using a shorter dur- ation of cough (>24 hours) had a somewhat better yield of TB cases and appears feasible for implementation. The increased workload on the laboratory, however, ...
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A Novel Reporter Phage To Detect Tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance in a High HIV Burden Population
... ble Disease Clinic) and a regional TB referral hospital (King DinuZulu Hospital Complex) in Durban, South Africa from November 2012 through May 2013. Study staff screened con- secutive patients presenting with suspected ...
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Improving detection of tuberculosis among household contacts of index tuberculosis patients by an integrated approach in Myanmar: a cross sectional study
... or gene Xpert MTB/RIF assay among the house- hold contacts aged ≥15 years, or (2) positive sputum with the presence of at least one AFB in at least one sputum sample among the household contacts aged ≥15 ...
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Diagnostic Modalities For Tuberculosis
... -chromatographic method and acid-fast staining. 2 to 4 weeks’ for the culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) is required for reporting the results. Whereas the solid based assay systems like Lowenstein Jensen and ...
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Assessment of TB centers having CBNAAT facility and to find out the impact of CBNAAT in MDR Tuberculosis cases detection in a cosmopolitan city of Madhya Pradesh- A cross sectional study
... Above table depicts that No. of samples processed per day in all three centres were sixteen as gene Xpert machine had only four sockets and it took two hours for processing. Hence in eight hours working ...
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Childhood tuberculosis and treatment outcomes in Accra: a retrospective analysis
... Abbreviations AOR: Adjusted Odds ration; DOTS: Directly Observed Treatment Short Course; EPTB: extra-pulmonary TB; GXP: Gene Xpert; HIV: Human Immuno-deficiency Virus; NACP: National AID[r] ...
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The Prevalence of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis among People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Abia State
... of gene Xpert in National TB programs, the diagnosis of HIV-associated TB and Ri- fampicin resistance had been made easy and ...of gene Xpert are varied and ...
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Evaluation of Role of Xpert MTB/RIF in Diagnosis of Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Patients attending Tertiary Care Hospital
... The Gene Xpert MTB/RIF assay (Cepheid USA) cartridge based nucleic acid amplification test is a newly developed, WHO recommended, automated diagnostic molecular test based on nested real time PCR and ...
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Improving the Sensitivity of the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay on Sputum Pellets by Decreasing the Amount of Added Sample Reagent: a Laboratory and Clinical Evaluation
... (ii) Substudy laboratory testing methods. All laboratory assessments completed as part of the parent study were described previously (10). In this substudy, only samples tested at the Uganda laboratory site were ...
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Performance of Xpert MTB/RIF, Xpert Ultra, and Abbott RealTime MTB for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a High HIV Burden Setting
... positive Xpert MTB/RIF, RT-MTB, or Ultra result and lack of growth on MGIT and LJ culture), another sputum specimen was obtained for MGIT culture, smear, and line probe assay (LPA) at the third visit (sputum ...
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False Positive Xpert MTB/RIF Results in Retested Patients with Previous Tuberculosis: Frequency, Profile, and Prospective Clinical Outcomes
... of Xpert false positivity in previously treated patients ...that Xpert detects DNA from nonintact cells, suggesting that dead bacilli contribute to the false ...whether Xpert-positive, ...
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